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Anya Achtenberg

Anya Achtenberg is a writer and poet. Publications include the novel Blue Earth, excerpted in Harvard Review, and The Stories of Devil-Girl, both with Modern History Press; and poetry books, The Stone of Language, published after being finalist in five poetry competitions, and I Know What the Small Girl Knew. Her fiction has received awards from Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story, New Letters, the Raymond Carver Story Contest, and others; poetry awards also include 1st prizes from Southern Poetry Review and Another Chicago Magazine.

Anya has taught widely, including at New York University, School of Visual Arts in NY, Springfield College Boston, Hamline University, the University of Minnesota's Split Rock Arts Program, the University of New Mexico's Honors, the Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences; for organizations such as The International Women's Writing Guild, the Center for Contemporary Arts and for Word Harvest in Santa Fe, The Leaven Center in Michigan, Intermedia Arts' Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, and The Loft, in Minnesota. She has developed and teaches a series of multi-genre workshops on Writing for Social Change (Re-Dream a Just World; Place and Exile/Borders and Crossings; and Yearning and Justice: Writing the Unlived Life.